A magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck Russia's far east coast Tuesday night, prompting tsunami waves along the U.S. West Coast. Simon Boxall, oceanography professor at the University of Southampton in the U.

Medical professionals were performing surgery on a cancer patient at the Kamchatka oncology center in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, located on Russia’s far-eastern Kamchatka peninsula, as a quake shook the operating room on July 29.

Video footage shows surgeons in Russia clinging to an operating table during an 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck the area on Wednesday.